10,000 spy satellites freely photographing China's territory on a daily basis but an ISP is the red line they will not tolerate being crossed.

nemo wrote: ↑Tue Jan 18, 2022 4:37 pm I hope they do not break the internet

With those skinny insubstantial arses they have? No danger of that.

ali baba wrote: ↑Tue Jan 18, 2022 4:50 pm 10,000 spy satellites freely photographing China's territory on a daily basis but an ISP is the red line they will not tolerate being crossed.

That one’s only a matter of time and all, mark my words.

My nordvpn works fine
what are you using?
a paid one?

Arget wrote: ↑Thu Jan 27, 2022 4:00 pm Just as an aside.

I have a VPN and i use it periodicly when I look for programs from Australia. I have internet through DIGI and so computer is connected via WiFi.
This week I have still got WiFi but if I connect to the VPN all internet drops out.

A friend of mine up on street 110 also has the same problem.

Is this the beginning of the end for unrestricted internet ( Chinese style censorship) pre February?

I have no idea of the answer to your question. I will say that a popular use for vpns for Brits overseas is to access IPlayer, the Beeb routinely blocks vpns, based on ip blocks for this reason. Presumably, because the vpn user may not be paying license fees. This is trivial to do, and requires no human intervention, a simple Python script can compare access requests vs. ip, add in to this JavaScript fingerprinting (which is incredibly basic, ip says this time zone, your phone says this time zone, JS fingerprinting actually takes much more into account, screen resolution, installed fonts, ad naseum ), and this IP address (or block of addresses is, well, blocked).
Depending on what happens in a few weeks, other options may be more viable, TOR, dVPN (many route through China or HK though), Proton (based in Switzerland with excellent privacy laws, but they recently complied with a legally mandated subpoena that put some French activists in jail. That was through their email, not their vpn.
It comes down to your ‘threat model’. “I want to stream programming outside of my geographic area”, all the way to, well, more radical things.
Personally, I have zero interest in politics, I only want to live a simple life.

My plan is to just rent a low cost VM from a small provider and run my own VPN from there. It’ll cost much the same and have a much lower chance of being blacklisted. I think. I’ll report back on if it works out or not.

Arget wrote: ↑Thu Jan 27, 2022 4:00 pm I have a VPN and i use it periodicly when I look for programs from Australia. I have internet through DIGI and so computer is connected via WiFi.
This week I have still got WiFi but if I connect to the VPN all internet drops out.

A friend of mine up on street 110 also has the same problem.

No issues like that here on Opennet (using Torguard).